The horror genre represents mainly the age group with younger people than older people because most younger people seem to get more scared than older people. The horror genre also represents the gender group with females playing the role of the victim as generally females are more venerable than males. This then can link with age to make the victim more venerable. The horror genre also doesn't particularly represent characters with a psychical disability unless they get injured in someway. This could be because people seen with a disability would have a disadvantage of an able bodied person. Also, people with a mental disability are represented as satanic spirits. This could represent that people with a mental disability are scary.
What did you do to accommodate these representations practically on your production?
We accommodated these representations by having a young, female character play the victim and having male playing the zombie. In terms of mise-en-scene, the lighting is reasonably balanced but will get dark at times which will stick with the general look of a zombie horror film. Also, the body language between each character will get aggressive which links back to how zombie survival horror characters act.
As you can see from this picture from 'Shawn of the dead', the body language between the two characters seems tense as they need to decide quickly how they are going to get rid of the zombies that are seen in the background.
Heres an image from 'Resident evil degeneration'. The lighting used is adding to the the tense atmosphere of the film and also the body language of each character shows fear and confusion. This is the sort of body language that our main character should show similarity to when she hears a knock at the door.
JABS - Laura
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